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ALERT: Research team found the Pan Am flight that crashed 74 years ago, killing 52 people, and changed airline industry standards forever. A Pan Am flight on April 11, 1952, was headed from Puerto Rico to New York with 64 passengers and five crew members aboard. It crashed shortly after takeoff due to both right-side engines failing. Although all passengers survived the initial impact, only 17 were rescued, while the others sank with the plane, which investigators blamed on a lack of safety briefings. Because of the incident, airlines adopted the safety briefings we hear before takeoff today. Air/Sea Heritage Foundation, along with Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown” show, found the wreckage of the Pan Am “Clipper Endeavor” at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off Puerto Rico’s coast. Josh Gates, a host of “Expedition Unknown,” said, “Every time you step onboard an airplane today, you are safer because of what happened to ‘Clipper Endeavor’ and her passengers three-quarters of a century ago.”